]]>Annalisa QuinnRuth Prawer Jhabvala, Award-Winning Novelist And Screenwriter, DiesHer scripts gave the sprawling Merchant-Ivory films substance. She won her first screenwriting Oscar for <em>A Room With a View</em> and her second for <em>Howard's End. </em>She won the Booker Prize in 1975 for her novel<em> Heat and Dust. </em>The cause of death was complications of a pulmonary condition. Jhabvala was 85.<em></em>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:50:00 -0400https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/04/03/176178242/ruth-prawer-jhabvala-award-winning-novelist-and-screenwriter-dies?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=ruthprawerjhabvala
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Her scripts gave the sprawling Merchant-Ivory films substance. She won her first screenwriting Oscar for A Room With a View and her second for Howard's End. She won the Booker Prize in 1975 for her novel Heat and Dust. The cause of death was complications of a pulmonary condition. Jhabvala was 85.